Death of Anna Koenig Linde of Freienwalde, Pomerania

Death of Anna Koenig Linde of Freienwalde, Pomerania

The death of Anna Koenig Linde of Freienwalde, Pomerania is this week’s homework for the Germanic Genealogy class I’m taking (again) from Cari Thomas in Santa Barbara. She’s a wonderful teacher with a true love of her subject and I’m learning so much. Here is this week’s translation homework:

Death No. 48/23 Female

The twenty-third December ¼ of 9 o’clock in the morning, died of a growth/tumor Anna Regina Koenig [widowed name?] Linde, the deceased master clothmaker Johann Gottlieb Linde _____ surviving ____ wife 65 years 6 months and 17 days old and ____ on the twenty-sixth of the same month buried. Her survivors 2 sons and 1 daughter.

Cari’s tools, the sanity and patience of my friend who is also taking the class, four different German handwriting books, Google Translate, got me to this point. Now with a little more tutelage, I’ll figure the rest out.

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Cari Thomas
25 May 2013 at 6:52 PM

Fantastic, Nancy. What a grand and interesting blog (and thanks for your very kind words. You feed my ego and brighten my days.)

It’s nice to revisit your Freienwalde records. Your first questionable word “[verwitwetenamen?]” is, just in case you haven’t already got it, actually verwittwete; and Thode gives: “verwit(t)wet” as “widowed” The extra e at the end is the feminine adjectival ending.

Same with hinterlassene, since it modifies Ehefrau. The third one is wurde, the 3rd person imperfect form of the verb werden, which carries a change of condition “become” etc; and here, is a “helping verb” for begraben (a definite change of condition!)

I can’t believe I’m brazen enough to try “teaching” German grammar. No, I’m NOT qualified for that; but I do have reference books at hand!

Off to try to follow…… Again, thanks for the good words on the course.

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